The half-conscious man jerked his thin form erect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beast of Space] Reference

We went up to see her and she seemed only half-conscious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference

The other was pulling at Ashe, who was only half-conscious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Traders] Reference

I listened to what she had to say in a dazed, half-conscious way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medoline Selwyn's Work] Reference

Rowan stayed in a soupy, half-conscious daze for a good three days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]

Alone with the King and the half-conscious Nabdalsa, Bomilcar sighed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Man in Rome]

I wouldn't depend too much what he says in that half-conscious state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obsession] Reference

I woke up, though I had indeed not been asleep but lying half-conscious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes from Underground] Reference

Miss Landbury swayed dizzily and fell back, half-conscious, upon the pillows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunny Slopes] Reference

Bartholomew continued to stare stonily at the half-conscious Mr. Porterhouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unlikely Duchess]

Jury scratched away, half-conscious of the sergeant's rather ragged breathing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Silent]

Ilna snorted in a half-conscious attempt to make herself as small as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

Primitive Earth Eskimos can fall into a long doze of half-conscious hibernation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet of the Damned] Reference

She seemed only half-conscious, her eyes burning green under partly closed lids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watcher 3] Fire Watcher]

The e-mails alone were enough to tell any half-conscious person what was going on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midterm Roundup] Reference

"I left him half-conscious, on the floor of the reception-room," replied Duncan, calmly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Woman] Reference

She seemed only half-conscious, unable to check the emotion that, unloosed, overwhelmed her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheik] Reference

Such is the half-conscious prayer of all these fugitives, -- of our Lady and all her children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference

Their pond guide took Boyd's station to the right, surveying the half-conscious man critically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference

Bazarov did not get up again that day and passed the whole night in heavy half-conscious slumber.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fathers and Sons] Reference

The old prayer: Lead us not into temptation, is perhaps a half-conscious recognition of this fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference

The teenager was pummeled, and now sits half-conscious in a small tented area near a makeshift ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting To Survive] Reference

She drifted into a half-conscious state, too tired to pay attention to the strange noises around her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Wilds]

He started up, and, though still but half-conscious, took the helm and gave it the direction I bade him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference

It was a long time in the making, this change in my half-conscious rankings of the great players in news.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Rosen: News Comes in Code: Judy Miller's Return to the Times] Reference

He started to spring after the mad woman, forgetful of the half-conscious creature on her knees before him.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference

Liz Cooke was here for a whooooooole afternoon and evening, and we were both half-conscious for most of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [senorcoconut Diary Entry] Reference

But a half-conscious Controller sprayed his thoughts at random, creating mental disturbances in his vicinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Penal Cluster] Reference

       I lay half-conscious in the leaves, undreaming the past hours and days and months and correcting them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fall] Reference

Now, she was set adrift; her anchor was raised; she lay at the wind's mercy, half-conscious of the peril and not caring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

He came over to her and stooped to look at the half-conscious child, who lay with half-open eyes and under jaw dropped down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

Ernest had become so accustomed to her presence in his half-conscious state, that he never showed surprise at finding her there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference

As soon as he felt her crawl in beside him, he snuggled closer and made a half-conscious gesture that ended with the word, "Mama.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clan of the Cave Bear]

The Senator turned his eyes all around, everywhere, in a desperate half-conscious search for escape from an embarrassing situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

Mildred would have felt a half-conscious æsthetic pleasure in watching his movements, superficially indolent but instinct with strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invader A Novel] Reference